Last month Ace joined me on a live-stream to reveal a preview of his impressive new FPGA core for MiSTer, Arkanoid (1986) Arcade. The core is now publicly released after a very long development cycle that required transposing several PCBs of real arcade hardware (a mix of arcade PCBs, old ICs, and other soft-core donors) […]
Racketboy contacted several people involved with MiSTer asked them to contribute to an in-depth article he wrote about the MiSTer FPGA Multi-Platform Console. It’s very well done and offers exciting views of what lies ahead, the state of things now, and it also works as a great introduction to FPGA-based hardware emulation in contrast to […]
Jose “Jotego” Tejada, who ported the Ghosts ‘n Goblins Arcade PCB to FPGA a few weeks back, just finished a 1942 Arcade core for MiSTer & MiST. Once again, he used the black box method to translate the arcade PCB into Verilog. Verilog & VHDL are hardware description languages, and are also the languages used […]
Ace has transcribed a new arcade PCB to VHDL, creating a new MiSTer FPGA core for the Arkanoid (1986) arcade game. This will be yet another extremely high-quality port, since is modeled at the chip level, giving each IC its own separate entity in the FPGA core. This allows the chips to function simultaneously, just […]
Sorge–AKA Alexey, the mastermind behind MiSTer–ported Jotego’s (Jose Tejada) open-source Ghosts ‘n Goblins MiST FPGA core to MiSTer, and released it today. A user shared a pre-compiled ROM here, and the core itself can be obtained using the Updater Script or on Github. The Ghosts ‘n Goblins [Makaimura] arcade PCB platform was similar to several […]
There’s now a 3D printed case available for the MiSTer FPGA kit. It can be ordered in different color configurations and has models for both the full kit + IO board, as well as the HDMI-only version with a fan. Sadly, the glow-in-the-dark option isn’t available on only the IO ports, would might be a […]
Furrtek has just posted a progress update to his MiSTer FPGA core for the Neo Geo. While it’s not quite in a usable state, it’s an exciting advancement from his Patreon post a few months ago. There’s some speculation that this core will require a larger RAM upgrade than is currently used on the MiSTer, […]
DJ Legion installed MiSTer into a JAMMA arcade cabinet using an Ultimarc J-PAC and and gave a tour of the installation. He wrote a guide in the video description, complete with MiSTer.ini settings. This is probably the first of many MiSTer arcade cabs to come, and it turned out really well. The J-PAC was a […]
I just pushed MiSTer Pack List v3.0 to Github. V3 is a complete redesign based around the new functionality of the Updater Script by Locutus73. I worked with Locutus behind the scenes and he designed the script around the file-layout of the MiSTer Pack List. Basically, it’s so integrated now that you will never have […]
Bruno AKA brNK has added Game Boy Color support to MiSTer’s Game Boy FPGA core. This is an early first release so support is hit or miss, but GBC support is under heavy development by Bruno and will be excellent when complete. Games that are supported reportedly play great. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Gameboy_MiSTer/
